What is wrong with this??

[thedahmer]

this "concept" is totally jacked up-- looks like a sawzall met a sedan--

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/DeSoto-Sports-Car-1957-DeSoto-Concept-Car-One-of-a-Kind-451-HEMI-Sports-C_W0QQitemZ270210081834QQihZ017QQcategoryZ6190QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[greg g]

Those look like 49 dodge wayfarer rear lights but I ain't buying the cup holders in 57.

This was the 54 Adventurer I doubt they would have regressed 3 years later

Here is a concept I could get my arms around

[Normspeed]

Holy cow! I give it a ten on the butt-ugly scale. May be a valuable classic one-off, but I wouldn't have it around. Might scare my P24.

speaking of car #1, of course....

[Young Ed]

The speedo looks like a 60 plymouth I had. Wonder if that was available when this car was supposedly built.

[greg g]

Upon further consideration it looks like a custom based on a big butt bizzy coupe. the look at the roof line from the door up and the fender line is reminicent of the wayfarer bustle butt.

Did you catch teh answer to the question??? the former owner has dementia....I think I know whee it started ( no disrespect to the ill )

[Normspeed]

No Greg, it looks like a blonde on a Hemi.

[mackster]

Holy cow! I give it a ten on the butt-ugly scale. May be a valuable classic one-off, but I wouldn't have it around. Might scare my P24.

speaking of car #1, of course....

I've been known to like some crazy ideas and design. but that is just plain ugly to me...

[greg g]

Click the history button on this site;

http://www.chrysler.com/design/vehicle_design/gallery.html

Here are the official Exner era concept cars by 56 it was all teeth and fins'

http://automobileart.homestead.com/chryslerconceptcars.html

[PatS....]

That's no factory car or even a professionally done car, that's a backyard parts is parts car, done from a 4 door (the front door is definetely from a 4 door)

It's a good way to get rid of various and sundry unwanted parts and flog the bastard child result as a one-off in this Internet/Barret-Jackson world of gullible people.

Good luck to them.

If they sell it, I'll build a clone from the 50 DeSoto parts car in the backyard here...I need the money

Maybe it was a group therapy project at a rehab clinic

[Normspeed]

Hey Pat, if it has some of those DeSoto hideaway headlights I'll buy it. Can you incorporate some fins?

[BobT-47P15]

Are those round gauges from a 57 DeSoto?

Wonder what bumpers it had? What grille? The headlights/parking

lights look as if they used to have 53 Buick frames.

I would say it's a home built item, using an old DeSoto with assorted

later model pieces attached. Making custom cars was a popular thing

in the 1950s.

This one was built by a man who lived down the street from me.....using

two 1946 Hudson sedans from a salvage yard. Jan. 1952.

[BobT-47P15]

From an ad in Jan '52 Motor Trend.

[Don Coatney]

This one was built by a man who lived down the street from me.....using

two 1946 Hudson sedans from a salvage yard. Jan. 1952.

A couple years back I sold my gear shift knob to the lady in the drivers seat in the picture below. Her dad built this Hudson custom and she is re-doing it. Sure looks like the car in your picture Bob.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Actually the rear looks like a SP250...the car does look hacked especially in the area of the front grille...the butt is normal for cars of that period coming out of GHAI...I hae photos of one that was black and more in the original configuartion take at last years swap meet in Charlotte...I cannot access those pics at the moment..

[builtfercomfort]

The seller has revised the description - he no longer says it's a (factory) Concept Car.

"Attention: Those watching this listing as of February 9th: I am selling this car for a friend who tells me this was a concept car. However, I have retracted those descriptions as I cannot locate any documentation and other ebay members have written to correct. I will be talking with the owner today.

[thedahmer]

I have to agree with Greg G-- I think that gal could suck the chrome off of a bumper!Hmm where does the shift lever go??

[BobT-47P15]

Hmmm.... About those Hudson sports roadsters, I wonder if there was a

set of plans you could buy back then to make such a vehicle. There is a

lot of similarity between those two cars.

I think the guy from my town actually wrote a book detailing how he did

his......maybe the Tennessee person bought that book.

[bob westphal]

You guys are pretty hard on this car! Somebody had an idea and made it a reality! It is obviously home made probably with a meager set of tools. The design as a whole isn't that bad considering the designs that were around during the early sixties. This car was someone's pride and joy just like ours are to us. I think it deserves preservation and to be seen. It is a piece of custom car history. It isn't any worse than a Roth design or some of the wayout Barris cars. I would rather be seen in it than the Munstermobile!

[greg g]

Merely taking umbrage at the fact that it was represented ( then corrected) as a factory concept car.

[Captain Neon]

I've always been interested in folks' attempts at competing w/ the 1955 Corvette. While not a professional job, the guy gives me an idea of what MoPar might have attempted. DeSoto would have been a good division to make such a car.

[Suddensix]

I'm with Bob on this one . Although the car isn't everyones cup of tea it shows that a lot of thought and effort went into it. probably a lot of bondo to. It looks more like a cut down Lincoln to me, especially the roof. As far as the chick riding the Hemi she's probably a grandmother now.

[1940Mopar]

I agree that passing it off as some concept is downright fraudulent....especially when it seems like the car is relatively well done from a "custom" stanpoint. It looks like its been section and obviously chopped. Not a bad attempt at all. I'd love to get my hand son one of the more obscure customs from that era and restore it to its potential glory. Maybe not everyones cup of tea but I think its pretty interesting and definitely different.

[BobT-47P15]

The same guy from my old hometown who built the Hudson roadster then

went on to try and build a fiberglass roadster on a Chrysler chassis. His

nephew said the fiberglass cracked when it got older at got hot. So he

removed the body at sent it to the dump. Ah well......

[eric wissing]

http://members.aol.com/miray/images/MuntzJetOnRocks.jpg Here is a car of the same era. My Grandfather had one. I wish he would have kept it!! Eric

[Captain Neon]

As far as the chick riding the Hemi she's probably a grandmother now.

Grandmother? Probably a great-grandmother by now. She looks a lot like an ex-girlfriend of mine from many years ago. Maybe her grandmother?